Why are we accusing Norm Coleman of petty things...

Well, it does feed into the larger issue of a "family values repub" having a sham marriage. Should the neofascists not dragged us here? Sure, but here we are.

And FWIW, Mr. Rath clearly admits it by saying "where" and not "when" in his non-denial-denial.

Besides, in the "proof outtakes" someone added a second glass of OJ (only in the first, static, frame) to imply 2 people there. It's gone in all other shots. Very clumsy.

It's always the cover-up.

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Posted at June 23, 2008 5:58 PM in response to Did GOP Senator Fake An Ad Showing Him Cozy With Wife?

Impeachment can be over in a matter of days. (Yes, really.)

There is nothing to investigate. No fact witnesses. No "smoking gun" to find. Everything is already on the public record.

A simple up or down House vote for or against torture(ers) and terrorizing The American People with lies of "Mushroom Clouds!!" ought to sail through.

Then a day or two in the Senate for James A. Baker to prattle on about how the WMD were "counted, and recounted, and recounted" and how Plame's WMD-tracking network had to be rolled up so "grown-ups" could take charge of all that yellow cake.

And then, at long last, the DC/Euphemedia Analstocracy might break out of its self-induced coma to DO SOME DAMN THING about the serial treason against our once-great nation, that's been underway since the Felonious Five took the sovereign American People "out of the loop" -- making us fair game for 9-11 and legally and morally liable for nazi-like atrocities worldwide.

Impeachment remains the ONLY moral, patriotic option that can even begin to Redeem Our National Soul.

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Posted at June 7, 2008 5:11 AM in response to Today's Must Read

When you "play ball" with war criminals, you become one yourself.

Mr. Fine has chosen to play for the Torture Team, as an accessory after the fact -- for all the world to see (and prosecute), for all posterity, for his grandchildren to read about.

The shame he adds to this is of a more profound type than those who stood sweaty and grinning, listening to the horrific, haunting screams.

Only impeachment can even begin the Redemption of Our National Soul. Mr. Fine has opted to join the firewall against it.

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Posted at May 21, 2008 11:07 AM in response to DOJ IG Report Takes It Easy on FBI

Sorry beltway-blinded bullies, but the treaties demand that ALL Gov't Officials ACT to report and put a stop to torture and war crimes.

You may not be "as bad" as the one causing the horrific, haunting screams. (Though that's also arguable.)

BUT...

-- if you hear the screams, know the screams are happening, read about them in a memo, or even suspect that a congressional hearing you call could prevent a single one of them --

-- and you don't disregard any risk, up to imminent physical danger, TO DO some damn thing --

...then you're on the Torture Team -- for the world to see (and prosecute), for all posterity, for your grandchildren to read about.

Yes, it sadly really is just that simple.

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Posted at May 19, 2008 8:57 PM in response to AP: Report on FBI Role in Interrogations to be Released Tuesday

Detainees Deteriorate During DC-Dem Dithering

No Chairman Shilly-Shally, torture does not demand "scrutiny and oversight."

It demands action. (Read the treaties.) Impeach or get off the pot.

Give Wexler the gavel and watch how a real leader acts.

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Make no mistake. This failure to impeach is losing the election to McCain. It wreaks weakness. And Friedman has already exposed the plan to trumpet "strong and wrong" as better than "weak and right" out of the Mighty Euphemedia Wurlitzer.

If Hillabama were going to cut it, we'd see that in polls by now. It's not there and not coming. It's impeachment or uninterupted bushcheneyism (yes, really -- or are you under the delusion that cheney needs his stinking "I'm the veep" badge to pull McCain's puppet strings?)

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Posted at May 7, 2008 9:51 AM in response to Yoo, Feith, Ashcroft Agree to Testify

As a US Gov't Official, you either impeach then prosecute torturers/war criminals OR you become one yourself.

Yes, it's just that simple.

Some other "simplicity" for the Impeachophobic Community:

• Impeachment would take weeks (perhaps days), not months. All that's left to do is a simple up or down vote on what's already in the public record.

• Both must be impeached and there's no reason not to do it on the same articles. Succession will not be an issue as staggered resignations will be allowed. (Stop over-thinking everything.)
• We already have the votes to convict in the Senate.
• The will be no (U.S.) prosecutions without impeachment. Failure to impeach is exoneration for the regime. (Excommunicate from that "cargo cult.")
• Whatever "ickiness" you're connecting to the Clinton farce is oxymoronic.
• Impeachment is the ONLY way to even begin to Redeem Our National Soul. It may well be the the path to reunite our once-great nation.

In general, stop your defeatist, escapist, culpably-irresponsible whining.

Impeachment is our ONLY moral, patriotic option.

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Posted at April 12, 2008 8:48 AM in response to Bush: Yeah, We Signed Off on Torture. So What?

Madame, your "views" on this, and torture, etc... -- so obviously limited by the large sphincter muscle that is the DC beltway -- are of virtually no interest to anyone not similarly in need of Cranial-Rectoscopy.

The same can be said for what you "often say," everything you "insist," have "strongly condemned," or anything about which you "remain deeply concerned."

You see, you were not elected to office to prattle on like a pundit, but TO ACT. That is to say, TO DO some damn thing.

Now, unless and until one of your overpaid, myopic strategerists devises a magic potion to circumvent "Rule by signing statement" -- which seem higly unlikely -- you are literally impotent to DO anything BUT mount an impeachment effort.

Anything else you may think (or be told) you are "doing" is wasted effort and damaging to the nation.

You are not charged with being "concerned" about what the outcome of a House vote or Senate trial might be. That is above your pay grade. You are also not the nation's "Divisiveness Czar" (as if dividing the war criminals from the law abiding Americans is somehow a bad thing).

The oath of office you took demands that you stop talking and start DOING. It is your/our ONLY moral, patriotic option.

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Posted at April 1, 2008 5:16 AM in response to Jane Harman Comments on The Release of Bush's Law by Eric Lichtblau

Astonishing.

The torture cheerleader literally admits that torture talk was the reason he tried to revise history. (Quite rightly being concerned that his Daily Show appearance could possibly earn him a trip to The Hague someday.)

Talk, which btw, conisists of a "stance on torture" that dictates that any discussion is "moot" because it happened less than a certain number of times, a certain number of years ago, and a certain number of people said it's not happening now -- and that it all really depends on whether a uniform or cellophane is involved (notwithstanding a US Supreme Court ruling of the opposite)!?!

That "offending material" is NOT returned to his page.

But does that warrant a "dig?" Of course not. Why let a few war crimes get in the way of our wall to wall Hillobamania.

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Posted at March 18, 2008 6:48 AM in response to Newsmax's Kessler Scrubs Reference To His Obama Factual Blunder From His Wiki Page

That's a typo, right? It should be:

"...we are taking an impotent step..."

You can't "restore" moral leadership (or habeas corpus, or rule of law) by whining. And you can't "override" Rule By Signing Statement.

We've seen this pathetic display time and time again.

There is no "legislating" morality or literally anything else under this monarchical, "unitary," war criminal regime. Just like there is no "redefining" torture. There is only ACTING to stop it or complicity with it.

There is ONLY Impeachment or Impotence.

Failure to impeach is complicity -- approval -- exoneration for the regime.

We allow it at our (continuing) peril.

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Posted at February 14, 2008 1:50 AM in response to Reid: Bill Is Opportunity to Condemn Torture

(First: Eagerly awaiting my copy.)

While it would have been nice (and perhaps decisive) to have had some of those Reaganites -- and your book -- with us when we prowled the halls with pitchforks and torches screaming "Scalito" and "Urinary Executive*" into the DC-Deaf-Ears we found there, I'm not sure we can join in the "unknown Cassandra's" hope that it's "Better late than never."

Sadly, the real problem still exists: Impeachophobia. The current crisis is not one of concept, but of action -- of political will to act.

The oldest GOP joke in DC: "Gosh, for a minute there I thought they might actually DO something," still draws the same faux-guilty chuckling from the neofascists, while they wring the crumbs from the Constitutional Cookie Jar off their hands.

Oh yes it is fascism -- let's not be naive. Fascism -- Authoritarianism -- Monarchism -- BushCheneyism -- Theocracy -- it's all the same thing. A belief that some minority has the right to rule the majority. It matters little if it's the true believers, a master race, a family dynasty, the chosen people, a ruling class, or the current DC/Euphemedia Analstocracy.

It's all anti-democratic, thus Anti-American

Though the goose-stepping has gone the way of bell-bottom jeans, the sloganeering: "co-equal branches," "republic, not a democracy," "executive privilege" still has a secure hold on the politically gullible. And do we not have concentration camping at Gitmo and worldwide? Are we not despised globally as a rogue state? Have our government and corporate hierarchies not merged?

But the fault, at the moment, lies not in our stars -- or our founders -- but in ourselves. Or more specifically in our DC Dem "leadership." Their rationalizations for inaction would be comical if not for the ongoing torture, war crimes, and pointless pillaging of American lives and treasure they are actively enabling.

Whatever "mechanisms" of power our (former) Constitution provides, an unpulled lever is just a coat rack. And as John Conyers recently said, a self-castrating Congress is just a "social club."

Here's hoping that your book can provide the "reality spoon-feeding" so sorely needed inside the beltway. Perhaps Little Brown could make an effective publicity stunt out of sending each Member of Congress a copy. It would certainly be a service to our once-great nation.

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*Urinary Executive or Urinary Authoritarian Executive (slang, DCspeak) n., (en)title -- the "newly-discovered," or "inherent" (i.e., faith-based) Constitutional Authority for an appointed ruler (as opposed to elected leader) to piss down the back of the American People and tell them it's raining. See also, Trickle-Down Economics

Posted at September 13, 2007 8:22 AM in response to "Takeover" starts to take off as "Reaganites Reconsider"